today my brother turns 36.
wow, i bet my mom feels old…heh.
nothing better than a little dose of martha rich on your birthday.
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
the best form of this is face to face
its likely that she wont be able to cook any time soon, as most of our homes here dont have any electricity from the crazy ice storm we just had. i will be posting some images of this a little later as soon as we can make it back home (from jonathan’s parents) and get my camera equipment. His parents house regained electricity last night…but we were making it just fine without it because of their amazing wood stove!
we will be spending the entire day today back at our house making logs out of our beautiful trees that have all fallen apart on our lawn {and road}….
seems like the remnants of a garage sale…
today is my daughter’s 6th birthday. theres nothing more true than the cliche of time flying, and days like this only justify it happening.
happy birthday raine!
an ecclectic gathering of faces and personalities
available now at earlygriffin {click image}
there isnt much to say here other than amazing.
again….this derives from my strange obsession with random objects placed in an organic situation. so, here we have an ironing board in the forest.
this was nearly climbing out of my chest tonight…
{this sort of looks like a strawberry…its definitly supposed to be a heart, as strawberries dont usually feel like theyre going to climb out of my chest!}
well some of you might actually be wondering why i havent posted in nearly a week, and i dont really have a good excuse. i could blame it on the fact that i am sick, or that i have 2 kids and a husband, or that i am back in school. but i wont.
this illustration pretty much sums up how i feel today: crazy hair, no body (because it hurts so bad from being sick), freckles, and an overall unappeal.
no worries though, i am progressively feeling better, tomorrow should be amazing!
having to stay indoors through the cold winter = a pale face
as my my husband usually sits in the evenings and reads, i try to take some time to draw after the girls have gone off to bed. One particular evening he was reading the brothers karamazov (for the second time), by dostoyevsky.
I asked him to tell me the last line that he read in hopes of some sort of inspiration. So he read: “how can you talk of joy…coughing as though you would tear yourself to pieces.”
For some reason, that i cant remember why, i drew a depressed-looking, weak man with his shirt torn to shreads…
well, im back at school {after having baby#2}, and it sure would be nice to live close enough to campus to be able to just ride my bike to the studios…
lady in a wooden skirt…
this weeks topic is “contained” so the first thing that [strangely] came to mind was a tree stump in a jar…so i drew just that…
every now and then i come across an artist that blows my mind. dana ray {found via my love for you…} is now that artist. her work nearly made me cry it was so refreshing to see. okay, thats an exaggeration…but really, its freaking amazing!!
these flowers want to say something, and i cant quite understand what that is. though im sure it is gentle and kind-hearted like their friends (im guessing).
a cute little creature created from one of my drawing books. this is from a book i found at a thrift store last year, that i converted into my sketchbook. i occassionally return to it for inspiration and doodling.
another amazing artist that i happened upon last week. i had a hard time choosing which images to post.
and you’ll be fine.
i love these two. they seem to have such a wonderful and kind personality. i would love to hear what they had to say if it were possible…
she finally resolved to leave her hair as it was and to stop worrying about it.
im not sure why unusual objects; or heads in this case, growing from a plant fascinates me so much. i wonder what these seeds would have looked like. hm.